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  1. I am trying to identify fossils in these thin sections of Silurian sedimentary rocks from Lithuania. Any ideas? I am still learning and lacking so much in experience… 🥺
    I think I got the Crinoids right and some Bryozoas, but that’s it.
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    Also, next to these there are some nice cathodoluminescence photos of the same thin sections 🤩 You can see growth zones in them!

    #paleo #paleontology #geo #geology #thinsections #sedimentary #microscopy #micro #microfossils #fossils #crinoids #bryozoa

  2. Less than a week before #Christmas , so out #fossil hunting during the only warm day of the week.
    Location: #MineralWellsFossilPark #MineralWells ( #PaloPinto county) Texas.
    #Pennsylvanian ( #Carboniferous ) reef deposit.

    Lots of #crinoids and #brachiopods as usual. Quite a few #sponges and large stick #bryozoa (alas no veil bryozoa this time), and 3 distinct species of #gastropod.

  3. Today marks the 190th year anniversary of the discovery of the #cyphonautes #larva of #bryozoans! Ehrenberg first saw the tiny creature on November 25, 1832 (Hyman 1959).

    This is my favorite #LarvalForm of all #MarineInvertebrates. It has a unique triangled, hat-like shape with a thin bivalve shell and a pompom at the top (apical organ). It swims and captures food using cilia and has some finely organized muscles (first image).

    #OTD #Biology #Bryozoa #Microscopy #Confocal #Biodiversity